For many, the standard retirement timeline looks like this: Work hard at your career until around age 65, then finally stop working and start enjoying life. But some are challenging this narrative by pursuing FIRE – Financial Independence, Retire Early.
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Google’s 70 qbit Qauntum computer. A refrigerator festooned with microwave cables cools the Google’s quantum chip nearly to absolute zero
A quantum computer is a type of computer that utilizes principles from quantum mechanics to perform computations. Unlike classical computers, which use bits to represent and process information as either 0 or 1, quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in a superposition of both 0 and 1 states simultaneously.
The Daily Man-Up: Practice Choosing Discomfort
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Practice choosing discomfort.
Our choice is between doing an uncomfortable thing now or having greater discomfort thrust upon us later. Because we procrastinators suck at choosing the lesser discomfort now, we effectively are choosing greater discomfort at times that are out of our control.
Making that choice is a skill. It has to be practiced to be developed. You can’t just start doing it easily today just like you can’t just start doing anything that requires skill.
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How Much Should a Sandwich Cost? With inflation affecting the price of food, you might wonder if expensive sandwiches are worth it – The Takeout
CPI Report Shows Inflation Eased to 3% in June – WSJ
She Played ‘Pam Byrnes’ on Meet The Parents. See Teri Polo Now at 54 – Ned Hardy
She Played April O’Neil In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. See Judith Hoag Now at 60 – Wanderer
This machine has everything you need to make coffee shop quality espresso at home. With its 15 bars of pressure, integrated grinder, and milk frother, it offers a complete espresso experience – Amazon
Why can’t we stop homelessness? 4 reasons why there’s no end in sight – NPR
Tipping is ‘not a sustainable system,’ says 25-year-old pizza delivery driver: My income ‘relies on the goodwill of others’ – CNBC
Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns Into a Traffic Jam – Nautilus
All 27 Pixar films ranked by their likelihood to make you cry – GQ
6 Key Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship With Yourself – Stylist
5 tech tricks for learning a musical instrument – Popular Science
The mathematically correct way to tie your shoes – Big Think
Banksy’s Former Agent Shares Rare Photos Of The Artist’s ‘Terrible’ First Glasgow Show – Huffpost
Kaley Cuoco Believes Her Big Bang Sex Scenes Were a Twisted Prank – Ned Hardy
Why Jerry Seinfeld Turned Down $110 Million For Another Season of ‘Seinfeld’ – Wanderer
10 of the Oldest Inventions in Existence – Linkiest
The comic-book movie so bad it made Sean Connery quit acting: ‘His passion had left him’ – Independent
The Beloved Mexican Whistle That Means ‘Fuck You’ – VICE
We were all young once…check out this bad financial decision – Instagram
The Dumping Grounds
What is the Yield Curve?
The yield curve shows how interest rates on bonds change for different time periods. Bonds are basically loans that investors make to the government or companies. The investor gets paid an interest rate on the bond.
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Mark Zuckerberg training with UFC Champs Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski
Success Doesn’t Require Speed…It Requests Slowness
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So many people today are in a rush to become successful.
They want to earn 7-figures in 12 months even though they have no marketable skills, no network, and no businesses acumen.
They want to build their dream body in 12 weeks even though they haven’t set foot in a gym in years and don’t really understand the current state of their physical body.
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50 Horror Movies Ranked by How Much They’re Going to Traumatize My Cousins When I Babysit – The Hard Times
He Played Kyle Reese in Terminator. See Michael Biehn Now at 66 – Ned Hardy
She Played Kimberly The Pink Power Ranger. See Amy Jo Johnson Now at 52 – Wanderer
The Best Toe-Nail Clipper Ever. This thing will slice through your nails like a hot knife throuh butter – Amazon
Former US gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar assaulted in prison – ABC
A transgender woman, Rikkie Valerie Kollé, was just crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time – Insider
Rolls-Royce Spectre Flippers Will Be Immediately Blacklisted, CEO Says – The Drive
Disney’s Harsh New Reality: Costly Film Flops, Creative Struggles and a Shrinking Global Box Office – Variety
Tyson Fury, Francis Ngannou fight in Saudi Arabia announced – ESPN
Quentin Tarantino Reveals The 3 Films That Have Influenced Him The Most – Wanderer
The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time – Rolling Stone
Hitting a Baseball is the Hardest Skill to Pull Off in Sports. Here’s Why – Popular Science
A Southwest Airlines flight took a moment to celebrate a 6-year-old girl who had just beat cancer – Insider
The Best Cheap Things to Do in NYC: How to Spend a Day Exploring for Less Than $50 – Traveler
“I Didn’t Appreciate What I Had”: 10 Men On Their Biggest Marriage Regret – Fatherly
How to Become a Video Game Scriptwriter – Make Use Of
The Best TV Shows of 2023 (So Far) – The Ringer
Stop Catastrophizing: How to Retrain Your Brain to Stress and Worry Less – Tiny Buddha
You’re going on vacation. What should you do with your pet? – VOX
Neighbors raise $37,000 for a bullied, lonely kid who knocked on their door looking for friends – Upworthy